Unless an action is rightly thought out and its steps rightly planned, every stage of its performance will probably remain vague and therefore unsatisfactory for the doer and all those concerned.

We must take situations as they are. We must only change our mental attitudes towards them.

Meditation is the sharp tool to dig out the great treasure hidden within everybody's inner personality.

Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you.

Don't fight darkness. Bring the light, and darkness will disappear.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become.

Do not fight the darkness, let the light in and the darkness will disappear.

Whatever we put our attention on will grow stronger in our life.

The genius of man is hidden in the silent, settled state of mind from where every thought emerges.

If you're too busy to meditate twice a day, you're just too busy.

Naturalness is the basis of effectiveness. If one poses to be something else, one loses the charm of naturalness. The result is that one accumulates stress.

The world is yours the moment you follow your own dreams.

You can have the most expensive clothes and still lack style

I think life is a wondrous thing. I'm happy to try pretty hard.

Things change. Nothing ever stays the same, yo. You ain't never gonna stay 25 or 30 or 40. You always gonna change. Every day you change.

Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits.

My family is from the South, and I can remember all those ladies I grew up with, like my great-aunts, who had handkerchiefs. There's something sweet about them.

Anybody's marriage might benefit from an occasional embargo on talk.

She who desires peace must see, suffer and be silent.

Don’t misuse the pencil and don’t torment the paper.

Peace without justice is tyranny